Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-05-19

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away, struck my press, broke it all to
pieces, scattered my type and-well,
demolished all my prospects. My dear
friend, you now know why l am dis
gusted. 81 rkanSaw Traveller.
CRUELTY OF WOMEN.
A Subject Which Demands the Attention
of the Modern Educator.
Woman merits the worlds love and
admiration, and in her highest estate
she will always be the ideal of painter,
poet, novelist, and of society in its best
condition, and yet it must be confessed
that there is cruelty in woman which
demands much attention from the mod
ern educator and from the penal code
of the State. The Illinois Humane So
ciety is met constantly by the awful
fact of the cruelty of that being for
whom any working-man will rise and
give up his place in the car. He is
right in doing it in the name of the
noble ones of the sex, right in actingin
the name of his mother or sister, but so
far as the particular woman is con-
cerned, he may have given his place to
a being who whipped her child half to
death before she left home, or will whip
it when she gets back from her street
car excursion. To knock child over
is quite luxury to many female to
whom man gives his place in the street.
car.
The Chicago Humane Society has re-
Gently brought into the city little
twelve-year-old girl whose life for a
year or two would make good page
in 'Dante's Inferno" She was sent
out to a family which dearly and ten
derby desired to adopt some friendless
child and give it the blessing of home.
To the music of "Home, Sweet Home"
the child went out to this paradise in
the country. The husband and wife
who received the charge proved to be
church members of the kind who are
not saved by works. Whether at fam
lily worship the deacon sang that night
the hymn
"A charge to keep have"
and whether the little stranger found
on her bedroom wall a motto, wei
framed and expressing desire to have
God bless our home, has not yet ap
peared in the evidence, but it is dread
fully certain that the child did MOI
find any bed-clothes, or clothes for her
self, but she found heavy farm work tt
do before day and after dark, out il
the fields, when the temperature wa
far below zero; she found abuse in
doors worse than the weather without
no trace of humanity from the Chris
tan woman. and by kind of poeti
justice, when our Humane Societ,
found the little victim with her hand
and feet swollen to double size from
freezing, the angel of the house was OF
at church!
Now this is the kind of woman who's
neck halter would be a kind of orna
ment. No Elizabeth collar would s
; become that part of womanly beauty
That neck is of no account in tn
! world, there being no brain at one en-
and no heart at the other, The child
or, rather, the ruins of the child, are a
a hospital here in the city.
Many women are wonderfully hi
: name toward their gentleman friends
> but heartless toward their own sex
hence, their kindness is not cultur
nor high nature, but the accident {
the hour, only form of gilt sprea
{ over tin, brass or pewter. The misel
= are not all of the masculine gender
> Sometimes, under the handsome boz
II net at the theater or the church, theI
beats heart which has never reveale
any form of mercy to animal or MAJ
} kind.
}. 1t may well be hoped that such co,
l. duct is EXCEPTIONAL; but the point in d
+ bate is that this kind of severity is
n common among women as it is amor
s. men. The word ''woman" does n,
Ie mean kindness. 1t should, and pc
= haps will, but the woman host is ST
< on the march, and has not reached, |
Is many a mile, that height of soul call,
e humaneness. If Blue Beard was CRUZ
II so was Queen Elizabeth; if CAPITA
TX Kidd was "a pirate, Kate Bender w
a. quite as ready to kill man for fe
a dollars. We all love the dear, go'
lie women when they are educated al
e. refined and would rather permit
y mouse to escape than to kill one; b
we do not desire to be blinded to {
fact that woman can sometimes equ
IN man in meriting a good hanging
Prot. String, in Chicago Journal.